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		<title>Prominent NY law firm to seek bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KWCH.com &#8211; A prominent New York law firm is expected to seek bankruptcy protection. That&#8217;s according to a receiver appointed to run the firm &#8212; which has been scandalized by charges that its founder was behind a massive fraud. The receiver also predicted that the founder &#8212; Marc Dreier &#8212; will soon seek bankruptcy protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Evidence Emerges in Closed Insider-Trading Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#8211; New evidence has emerged in an insider-trading investigation that the&#160;Securities and Exchange Commission&#160;closed two years ago without filing charges, raising questions on&#160;Capitol Hill&#160;about the government&#8217;s oversight of what was once one of the nation&#8217;s most prominent hedge funds. According to documents, the hedge fund &#8212; Pequot Capital Management &#8212; secretly began to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreier Lawyers Describe Depleted Accounts, Departures From Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Law.com &#8211; As Marc S. Dreier was being arrested for attempting to defraud hedge funds of more than $100 million, some of the 10 affiliates of Dreier LLP were peeling off and others were trying to hold the firm together even as money for insurance and some operating expenses is frozen. Declarations filed Monday by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds request Dillard&#8217;s corporate records</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; A group of&#160;Dillard&#8217;s Inc.&#160;investors is asking the family that controls most shares in the department store chain for corporate records containing information on family and business relationships and perks given to directors or executives of the department store chain. The request was detailed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds And The Early Buffett Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[istockAnalyst.com &#8211; Mutual funds and hedge funds are very similar. An investor puts $10,000 into a mutual fund or hedge fund, and the manager uses that $10,000&#8212;along with the rest of the fund&#8217;s capital&#8212;to buy and sell securities. Though often shrouded in mystery, hedge funds are pretty easy to understand. A mutual fund has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Stock Shoots Up After Carl Icahn Raises His Stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eBrandz &#8211; In a move expected to fuel speculation over Yahoo Inc.&#8217;s search for a new chief executive &#8212; Corporate raider and billionaire investor Carl Icahn augmented his stake in Yahoo, has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet Company over three days this week, paying around $67 million, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Task Forces To Target Short Sales, Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EasyBourse.com &#8211; Global securities regulators have formed three task forces targeting short selling, hedge funds and unregulated financial trading, in an effort to take &#34;urgent action&#34; to coordinate responses to current market turmoil, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced Monday. The newly formed short-selling task force, chaired by the Securities and Futures Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban may have last word</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vineland Daily Journal &#8211; So Mark Cuban &#8212; internet billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner, blogging geyser &#8212; is in the soup for alleged insider training, the feds claiming he saved himself $750,000. That&#8217;s chump change. It wouldn&#8217;t even pay his NBA fines. But the folks down at the Securities and Exchange Commission can be a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Hedge Fund Sued By Former Employee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; New York hedge fund Peconic Partners was sued yesterday for firing an employee who reportedly was running his mouth about some shady insider trading activities. The suit, filed by former Chief Compliance Officer Joseph Sullivan in New York State Supreme Court, accuses CEO William Harnisch of wrongfully firing him. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Exit Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the recent market turmoil, many hedge-fund investors have questions regarding what regulations are applicable to hedge funds, and how to withdraw their money from their hedge-fund investments if they want out. Indeed, hedge funds often present many different barriers to withdrawal, and there are essentially no regulatory prohibitions on these barriers. Perhaps the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shareholder Sues CSX, Claims Hedge Funds Were to Blame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; CSX is finding themselves in the middle of another battle, this time with a shareholder who is suing the railroad company along with hedge funds TCI and 3G Capital Partners. Shareholder Deborah Donoghue is seeking the recovery of &#8220;short swing&#8221; profits from sales conducted by the two hedge funds between August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC to Make Hedge Funds Report Short Sales Until 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission extended a rule forcing hedge funds to tell the agency about short-sale positions amid concerns investors bet against companies after spreading false rumors they will fail. Investment managers who oversee more than $100 million must to disclose to the SEC the stocks they&#8217;ve bet will fall in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds Collateral damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economist &#8211; Hedge funds are supposed to hedge. This year, they haven&#8217;t. The fund-weighted composite index compiled by Hedge Fund Research, a firm that tracks the industry, fell by 4.7% in September, the second-worst month on record. Since the start of the year it has lost 9.4%. The industry&#8217;s promises of &#8220;absolute returns&#8221; for investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts differ on effect of short-selling ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today &#8211; Markets braced for Wednesday night&#8217;s scheduled expiration of the ban on short sales of more than 900 financial stocks, as investment analysts and advisers gave differing predictions on the potential impact. The emergency ban is set to expire just before midnight, 13 trading days after the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Funds Score a Victory in Short-Selling Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; Turns out hedge funds will not have to publicly disclose their secret strategies after all, at least not any time soon. The reprieve for the industry came late Wednesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly said it would relent on an emergency order, first issued Sept. 19, that would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds plead with US SEC to let short ban expire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; Lobbyists for the $2 trillion hedge fund industry made a last ditch effort Wednesday to convince U.S. securities regulators to let an emergency order prohibiting short selling in more than 950 financial firms expire Thursday. &#34;The orders have not prevented price declines of financial institutions, volatility in the securities of these firms, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds grudgingly to reveal US short positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers are reluctantly preparing to disclose their short positions to U.S. regulators on Monday, a move set to give a rare public glimpse into their secretive trading strategies two weeks later. For shareholders who have blamed short sellers for driving down company stocks, it will be a chance to see who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC advances pair of hedge fund cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#8211; A federal judge in Florida ruled Wednesday that the head of two hedge funds deceived investors about the funds&#8217; holdings. Elsewhere, federal regulators accused a California investment adviser of making tainted recommendations to clients. In the Florida case, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Michael Lauer, the head of Connecticut-based hedge funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Short&#8217; Attack May Spur Hedge Funds To Sue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Post &#8211; As the Securities and Exchange Commission continues its assault on short sellers, hedge funds are discussing legal action to challenge Chairman Chris Cox&#8217;s recent moves &#8211; just as funds in the UK are considering lawsuits against their government regulator. Since Friday, Cox has enacted a hodgepodge of emergency rules in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Fastens Its Seatbelt, Preparing for This Weeks Ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; Frazzled traders and money managers spent an angst-filled weekend struggling to fathom the sweeping bailout the Bush administration proposed for financial institutions in the United States and what it will mean for the world&#8217;s markets. At big banks, staff members rushed to update trading records before the opening bell sounded on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Pushes Hedge Fund Oath in Manipulation Probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to jumpstart a hunt for suspected manipulation of financial stocks, will require hedge fund managers, brokerages and institutional investors to describe under oath their bets on the firms. Investors with &#8220;significant&#8221; trades in the companies&#8217; securities or credit default swaps must disclose their positions and provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Armor to Fight Hedge Fund Bullies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFO.com &#8211; At 12:01 a.m. this morning, the Securities and Exchange Commission pushed out a new &#34;emergency&#34; disclosure rule that requires hedge funds and other large investors to disclose their short positions. The mandate is one of three new SEC investor protection rules that went into effect early this morning in response to widespread drops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC weighs ban on short selling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times &#8211; US securities regulators were on Thursday night considering a ban on short selling as part of a group of new initiatives to restore calm to the stricken financial markets, people familiar with the situation said. The US Securities and Exchange Commission was discussing a short-selling ban on some or all stocks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Deploys Restrictions On Short Sellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Post &#8211; The Securities and Exchange Commission met last night in emergency session to consider requiring hedge funds to disclose their short positions and institutional traders to secure their records in anticipation of subpoenas. Under the proposals, managers with more than $100 million invested in securities would have to issue reports of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg Fears National Debt Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Post &#8211; The next issue for concern in the battered economy is whether there are going to be buyers for the nation&#8217;s billions in debt, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. Speaking to students at Georgetown University, Bloomberg pointed out that Wall Street convulsions are being felt around the globe. &#34;Who&#8217;s buying our debt? It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall St and funds urge SEC to keep ratings in rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Securities regulators are locking horns with some of the U.S.&#8217;s most powerful mutual funds and Wall Street players over plans to scrap requirements that money market funds hold investment-grade securities. For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission allowed fund firms to buy only highly rated municipal bonds for money market funds but now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge funds get a new cop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealth Bulletin &#8211; The UK&#8217;s financial regulator has hired Australian Andrew Crain to head up the team that oversees the roughly 40 largest hedge fund managers that operate in the UK. Crain, a former regulator in his home country, assumes his new job later this month. The team he will run sits within the wholesale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. seeks delay of civil case vs. Bear managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; U.S. federal prosecutors asked securities regulators to delay a civil case against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers while they hold grand jury hearings in building a criminal case against the pair. Fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were arrested and indicted in June, the first executives to face federal criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harbinger Hedge Fund Looking to Shake Up Another Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Harbinger Capital has taken an 8 percent stake in Cablevision Systems Corp., according to a regulatory filing done yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The activist hedge fund now owns nearly 19 million shares of the cable operator.&#160; The filing communicated Harbinger&#8217;s views that the stock is undervalued and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Reserve investigated Lehman rumors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; The Federal Reserve acted on rumors last month and called Credit Suisse Group to see if it had pulled a credit line from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, The Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the matter. Credit Suisse told Federal Reserve officials that there was no truth to the rumor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loeb, Under SEC Probe, Defends &#8216;Give-and-Take&#8217; With Other Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point LLC is being investigated by regulators, said his &#34;give-and-take&#8221; with other hedge-fund managers doesn&#8217;t violate securities laws. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing New York-based Third Point, which manages $5.6 billion, for its communications with other hedge funds, Loeb said in a July 25 letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEOs Launch Web Site To Protect Short Sellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#8211; When the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an emergency order last month protecting the stocks of the country&#8217;s largest financial institutions against a form of short selling, three businessmen saw an opportunity. Harvey Pitt, SEC chairman from 2001 to 2003 and chief executive of District-based global consulting firm Kalorama Partners, teamed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros boosts Lehman stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Billionaire investor George Soros hiked his stake in Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers to 9.5 million shares as of June 30 from 10,000 shares, according to a U.S. regulatory filing on Thursday. Soros disclosed the quarter-over-quarter increase in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Soros raised his stake in Lehman ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US hedge fund buys $US162m BHP stake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age &#8211; Third Point, the New York-based hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, bought a stake in BHP Billiton worth $US162 million at the end of June, adding the world&#8217;s largest mining company to its portfolio. Third Point, known for pushing companies to make changes that increase their stock prices, bought 1.9 million shares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WaMu, Sovereign get British hedge fund investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; An activist British hedge fund has taken a 6 percent stake in Washington Mutual Inc as the largest U.S. savings and loan tries to rebound from billions of dollars of mortgage-related losses. The London-based fund, Toscafund Asset Management, also reported a 5.1 percent stake in Sovereign Bancorp Inc, the second-largest U.S. thrift. Toscafund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British hedge fund buys 5% stake in Sovereign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee Business Journal &#8211; An activist British hedge fund has taken a 5 percent stake in Sovereign Bankcorp Inc.,&#160; according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. London-based Toscafund Asset Management said its passive stake amounts to 33.5 million shares. Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain&#8217;s largest bank, owns roughly a quarter of Sovereign&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorts Are In a Bind</title>
		<link>http://www.hedgeco.net/news/07/2008/shorts-are-in-a-bind.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Post- If the Securities and Exchange Commission expands its clampdown on short-selling, it is widely expected to slam hedge funds like Stephen Cohen&#8217;s SAC Capital and James Simon&#8217;s Renaissance Technologies, which profit from fast-and-furious trading, experts predicted. That&#8217;s because under the long-accepted rules of the short-selling game, these hedge funds, which often trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund buys 5.3 percent of RadioShack stock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fort Worth Star Telegram- Citadel Investment Group is bullish on RadioShack, buying 6.9 million shares, or 5.3 percent of the electronics retail chain&#8217;s stock, according to a federal filing Monday. With the purchase, the Chicago-based hedge fund becomes the fourth-largest holder of RadioShack stock &#8212; but the only one of the top seven that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US lawyers busy as hedge funds face scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters- It&#8217;s turning into a busy summer for U.S. lawyers who advise hedge funds as the industry faces growing questions about potentially manipulative trading and regulators are knocking at fund managers&#8217; doors. With the markets in turmoil, the loosely regulated sector is under increasing scrutiny. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently sent subpoenas to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Intensifies Efforts To Rein In Short Selling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal- Wall Street executives expect the Securities and Exchange Commission to extend the temporary limits it has placed on short-selling and expand them to cover additional stocks beyond the 19 financial companies it targeted two weeks ago. The limits are set to expire Tuesday, and executives, lobbyists and hedge-fund representatives of the Managed [...]]]></description>
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